6 ECTS credits
150 u studietijd
Aanbieding 2 met studiegidsnummer 4023524EEW voor werkstudenten in het 1e semester met een verdiepend master niveau.
This “capita selecta” course aims at analysing in detail the new challenges for legal practitioners, consultants and policymakers related to online compliance and the regulation of digital market and the algorithmic-driven environment. The rise of the digital market has profoundly questioned the traditional rules of civil law and business law. There is a web of EU laws, regulations and legislative proposals about the digital market that needs to be attentively analysed and interconnected. The course will be appealing to students who may go on to become legal experts in various domains, consultants and lawyers dealing with ICT Law and digital issues, but also legal experts interested in the most recent EU reforms proposals in the field of technological innovation. This course will help in forming the lawyer of tomorrow or the ‘lawyer 2.0’, i.e. a professional equipped to handle professional activity in the legal sector in the digital age.
The course addresses a plurality of complimentary areas, like: e- commerce, digital consumer protection, regulation of online behavioural advertising, digital content and digital service regulations, digital contracts, online harms, intellectual property in the digital age (with particular attention to digital copyright, software protection and online branding protection), automated cars regulations, creditworthiness assessment and online banking. In is of an in-depth nature and will build upon knowledge that students have developed in other pillars of the legal education. The course will devote particular attention to the intersections among these different areas and how the digital innovation has profoundly changed the traditional areas of private and business law (civil liability, contract law, consumer protection law, road regulation, banking regulations, etc.).
The Course Material will be based on a Syllabus, some open-access chapters (in particular from Mireille Hildebrandt, Law for Computer Scientists and other Folks, OUP 2020) and some academic articles. In addition, for each lessons, some cases will be proposed. The text of EU laws analysed in each lesson will be part of course material. The course will be taught using innovative methods including blended learning.
The course has the following main learning objectives:
De beoordeling bestaat uit volgende opdrachtcategorieën:
Examen Mondeling bepaalt 50% van het eindcijfer
Examen Andere bepaalt 50% van het eindcijfer
Binnen de categorie Examen Mondeling dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:
Binnen de categorie Examen Andere dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:
Students are supposed to write a structured report and analysis of each given lecture. Which they have to discuss on the oral exam.
Deze aanbieding maakt deel uit van de volgende studieplannen:
Master in de rechten: Dual Master in Comparative Corporate and Financial Law
Master in de rechten: burgerlijk en procesrecht
Master in de rechten: criminologie
Master in de rechten: economisch recht
Master in de rechten: fiscaal recht
Master in de rechten: internationaal en Europees recht
Master in de rechten: publiek recht
Master in de rechten: sociaal recht
Master in de rechten: strafrecht